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About Omeath

Omeath, Ó Méith in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 82 km north of Dublin. It stands on the A2, B7 and R173. The map gives it 2,493 buildings and 71 named streets, with 76 places named on them in 59 kinds, and 209 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
82 km north of Dublin
Position
54.0869° N, 6.2617° W
Roads
A2, B7, R173, C332 and L3056
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,493 buildings, 71 streets, 76 named places in 59 kinds
P Mulligan's Corner House Store in Main Street, Omeath
P Mulligan's Corner House Store in Main Street, Omeath·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Corner House store, Main Street, Omeath
Corner House store, Main Street, Omeath·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Louth since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

139,70362,739128,24018412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 209 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the A2, B7, R173, C332 and L3056 running through Omeath. 11 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Dromore Road Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Omeath?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 82 km north of Dublin and 82 km from Dublin, on the A2, B7 and R173.
How big is Omeath?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,493 buildings, 71 named streets and 76 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Omeath?
209 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Omeath Play Park, Warrenpoint Marine Parade Amenity Area and Warrenpoint Park.
How do you get to Omeath?
1 bus and train line calls at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
2,493
buildings on the model
71
named streets
76
named places
59
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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